God I hate this! Never fails, either. I’d be on a page of someone’s profile or some piece of content I’d like to see but I’m required to log in. Okay, I will do so. So I do and it doesn’t redirect me back! It just puts me in the front page, like no thanks, just bring me to where I was!

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    Went to hackernews the other day. Tried to upvote a comment, then it asked me to login. Put in my login, hit the button, and boom, it redirected back to the original page, and the comment I was attempting to upvote is successfully upvoted! I was expecting I’ll need to press the upvote button again, but I don’t even need to do that. My mind was blown. Wish more websites do this.

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      It’s a great predictor of how the rest of your interaction with a site will go. If a dev doesn’t have the space and motivation to give a shit about details like this, they’ll cut corners on other shit too. It doesn’t always mean they’re bad developers; more often they’re just rushed.

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    Or when clicking the link to use your countries version of the site sends you to the home page…

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      Every few months Amazon or AliExpress will think I’m German or Spanish with no action on my part whatsoever.

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    do you happen to have one of those no tracking link browser extensions? I’ve had a few of those remove the redirect from the log in page url

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    Oh my god it’s fucking horrible. And so straightforward to fix.

    • oh noes! unauthorized!
    • store current path in a session variable
    • redirect to authentication
    • upon successful authentication, check if that session variable’s got a path in it
    • if it does, redirect to that
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    Yep, infuriating. It just happened with me. Googled something, followed a link to a website. I couldn’t see images on forum lthread there without registering. So I register, that of course takes me to the home page on the forum instead.